Dr. Sarah Hare
Dr. Sarah Hare earned their Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2013 and began their career as a traveling physical therapist, working across outpatient orthopedics, inpatient trauma rehab, and home health. That range is unusual, and it shows up in the evaluation: a clinician who has rehabbed a fresh trauma, a post-surgical hip, and a pelvic floor reads a body differently than one who has only ever worked a single setting. Since then they have added advanced training in orthopedic assessment and treatment, manual therapy, internal pelvic floor therapy, visceral mobility techniques, pregnancy and postpartum care, and gender-affirming pelvic therapy. Dr. Hare is also a certified RYT 200 yoga instructor and brings breathwork and mindfulness directly into treatment, because a pelvic floor that cannot let go will not get stronger by squeezing harder. They are the owner and founder of Inclusive Pelvic Wellness, a family owned and operated practice in Palm Desert, and they treat every patient here themselves.
Half of pelvic floor work is teaching a muscle how to let go, which is why I start with the breath. You cannot strengthen a floor that never stops holding on.
What guides the work.
A few things hold up everything else here. Consent comes before technique: internal pelvic floor work is explained in full before it is ever offered, and it stays yours to decline without the plan falling apart. Progress gets measured out loud at each visit, so you are never guessing whether this is working. And the practice is built to be safe to walk into, which means pregnant and postpartum patients, LGBTQ and transgender patients, patients of any body size, and patients whose symptoms were waved off somewhere else are all treated as routine, because they are. You will not be passed to an assistant or handed a generic sheet of exercises. The hour is yours, and so is the plan.
Off the clock.
Life beyond the treatment table.
Dr. Hare does not just prescribe movement, they live in it. Off the clock you will find them hiking around the Coachella Valley, walking with a local run club, and on a yoga mat, the same RYT 200 practice that shows up in the breathwork you will be taught here. Dexter, their dog, gets a vote in most weekend plans. Inclusive Pelvic Wellness is family owned and operated, and the thinking behind it is not complicated: movement is what lets you show up for the people and the places that matter, and that is as true for your therapist as it is for you.